Issue 6/2021
Content (44 Articles)
TAVR in patients with hip fracture and severe aortic stenosis: how and when?
Carlo Rostagno, Giorgia Falchetti, Andrea Carlo Rostagno, Alessio Mattesini
Assessing inflammatory status in COVID-19: a role in the pandemic?
Bernadette Corica, Giulio Francesco Romiti
Deep learning algorithms with mixed data for prediction of Length of Stay
Greta Falavigna
Putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in apparently immunocompetent patients within medical wards and intensive care units
Babatunde Edun, Mark Alan Tidswell
Acute severe ulcerative colitis: management advice for internal medicine and emergency physicians
Konstantina Rosiou, Christian Philipp Selinger
Safety of antithrombotic therapy in East Asian patients
Shinya Goto, Shinichi Goto
Clinical and electrocardiographic characteristics at admission of COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 pneumonia infection
Andrea Denegri, Giuseppe Pezzuto, Matteo D’Arienzo, Marianna Morelli, Fulvio Savorani, Carlo G. Cappello, Antonio Luciani, Giuseppe Boriani
A convolutional neural network with transfer learning for automatic discrimination between low and high-grade synovitis: a pilot study
Vincenzo Venerito, Orazio Angelini, Gerardo Cazzato, Giuseppe Lopalco, Eugenio Maiorano, Antonietta Cimmino, Florenzo Iannone
Temporal trends from 2005 to 2018 in deaths and cardiovascular events in subjects with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis
Marta Baviera, Giovanni Cioffi, Pierluca Colacioppo, Mauro Tettamanti, Ida Fortino, Maria Carla Roncaglioni
Prognostic role of hypothyroidism and low free-triiodothyronine levels in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure
Giuseppe De Matteis, Marcello Covino, Maria Livia Burzo, Davide Antonio Della Polla, Anna Petti, Carmine Bruno, Francesco Franceschi, Antonio Mancini, Giovanni Gambassi
Predictors of mortality of COVID-19 in the general population and nursing homes
Pedro Pablo España, Amaia Bilbao, Susana García-Gutiérrez, Iratxe Lafuente, Ane Anton-Ladislao, Ane Villanueva, Ane Uranga, Maria Jose Legarreta, Urko Aguirre, Jose Maria Quintana, Susana García-Gutiérrez, Miren Orive, Nerea Gonzalez, Iratxe Lafuente, Ane Anton, Ane Villanueva, Josune Martin, Cristina Muñoz, Maria Jose Legarreta, Urko Aguirre, Jose María Quintana, Pedro Pablo España, Ane Uranga, Mikel Egurrola, Amaia Aramburu, Amaia Artaraz, Leire Chasco, Olaia Bronte, Patricia García, Ana Jodar, Virginia Fernandez, Cristobal Esteban, Naia Mas, Esther Pulido, Itxaso Bengoetxea, Antonio Escobar, Amaia Bilbao, Iñigo Gorostiza, Iñaki Arriaga, José Joaquín Portu, Naiara Parraza, Milagros Iriberri, Rafael Zalacain, Luis Alberto Ruiz, Leyre Serrano, Adriana Couto, Oier Ateka, Arantza Cano, Maria Olatz Ibarra, Eduardo Millan, Mayte Bacigalupe, Jon Letona, Andoni Arcelay, Iñaki Berraondo
Early emergency readmission frequency as an indicator of short-, medium- and long-term mortality post-discharge from hospital
David Fluck, Paul Murray, Jonathan Robin, Christopher Henry Fry, Thang Sieu Han
Chronic comorbidities and clinical outcomes in patients with and without COVID-19: a large population-based study using national administrative healthcare open data of Mexico
Frank Daniel Martos-Benítez, Caridad Dios Soler-Morejón, Diana García-del Barco
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt reduces hospital care burden in patients with decompensated cirrhosis
Maria Pilar Ballester, Paloma Lluch, Concepción Gómez, Maria Capilla, Joan Tosca, David Martí-Aguado, Jorge Guijarro, Miguel Mínguez
Association between C-reactive protein and carotid plaque in mild-to-moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Andrea Sonaglioni, Antonella Caminati, Roberto Lipsi, Michele Lombardo, Sergio Harari
Serial KL-6 measurements in COVID-19 patients
Miriana d’Alessandro, Laura Bergantini, Paolo Cameli, Giuseppe Curatola, Lorenzo Remediani, David Bennett, Francesco Bianchi, Felice Perillo, Luca Volterrani, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Elena Bargagli, Nicola Lanzarone, Francesca Montagnani, Anna Perrone, Federico Franchi, Sabino Scolletta, Serafina Valente, Lucia Migliorini, Barbara Rossetti, Cecilia Vagaggini, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Maria Grazia Cusi, Bruno Frediani, Egidio Mastrocinque, Matteo Cameli, Marco Antonio Bellini, Arianna De Lalla, Andrea Melani, Nicola De Stefano, Barbara Porchia
RDW-based clinical score to predict long-term survival in community-acquired pneumonia: a European derivation and validation study
Remo Melchio, Jacopo Davide Giamello, Elisa Testa, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Andrea Falcetta, Cristina Serraino, Piero Riva, Christian Bracco, Leyre Serrano Fernandez, Salvatore D’Agnano, Stefano Leccardi, Massimo Porta, Luigi Maria Fenoglio
Effect of pegylated interferon alfa-2a in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B during and 48 weeks after off-treatment follow-up: the limitation of pre-treatment HBsAg load for the seroclearance of HBsAg
Shima Mimura, Koji Fujita, Kei Takuma, Mai Nakahara, Kyoko Oura, Tomoko Tadokoro, Hideki Kobara, Joji Tani, Asahiro Morishita, Takashi Himoto, Tsutomu Masaki
Comparison of cardiovascular disease and cancer prevalence between Mediterranean and north European middle-aged populations (The Cilento on Ageing Outcomes Study and The Malmö Offspring Study)
Olle Melander, Paola Antonini, Filip Ottosson, Louise Brunkwall, Widet Gallo, Peter M. Nilsson, Marju Orho-Melander, Gaetano Pacente, Giovanni D’Arena, Salvatore Di Somma
Inflammatory biomarkers as independent prognosticators of 28-day mortality for COVID-19 patients admitted to general medicine or ICU wards: a retrospective cohort study
Tyler Pitre, Aaron Jones, Johnny Su, Wryan Helmeczi, Grace Xu, Catherine Lee, Adib Shamsuddin, Adhora Mir, Sarah MacGregor, MyLinh Duong, Terence Ho, Marla K. Beauchamp, Andrew P. Costa, Rebecca Kruisselbrink, William Ciccotelli, Sophie Corriveau, George Farjou, Stephen Giilck, Carla Girolametto, Lauren Griffith, Brent Guy, Shariq Haider, Rajendar Hanmiah, Paul Hosek, Mats Lyndon Junek, Jessica Kapralik, Cindy Cin Yee Law, Theresa T. Liu, Maura Marcucci, Leslie Martin, John Neary, Ameen Patel, Natya Raghavan, Parminder Raina, Samir Raza, Connie Schumacher, Catherine Tong, Jennifer Tsnlrang, Joshua Wald
Ischemic and bleeding risk by type 2 diabetes clusters in patients with acute coronary syndrome
Ilaria Cavallari, Ernesto Maddaloni, Felice Gragnano, Giuseppe Patti, Emilia Antonucci, Paolo Calabrò, Plinio Cirillo, Paolo Gresele, Gualtiero Palareti, Vittorio Pengo, Pasquale Pignatelli, Rossella Marcucci, Elisabetta Moscarella, Arturo Cesaro, Guido Grossi, Martina Berteotti, Gennaro De Rosa, Vittorio Taglialatela, Lucia Digitale, Gentian Denas, Daniele Pastori, Maurizio del Pinto, Tiziana Fierro
Timing of corticosteroids impacts mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Amit Bahl, Steven Johnson, Nai-Wei Chen
Screening for atrial fibrillation during automated blood pressure measurement among patients admitted to internal medicine ward
Giacomo Pucci, Edoardo Santoni, Valeria Bisogni, Camilla Calandri, Alberto Cerasari, Irene Dominioni, Leandro Sanesi, Marco D’Abbondanza, Vito Veca, Gaetano Vaudo
Mixed-data deep learning in repeated predictions of general medicine length of stay: a derivation study
Stephen Bacchi, Samuel Gluck, Yiran Tan, Ivana Chim, Joy Cheng, Toby Gilbert, Jim Jannes, Timothy Kleinig, Simon Koblar
Putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis within medical wards and intensive care units: a 4-year retrospective, observational, single-centre study
Silvia Corcione, Tommaso Lupia, Stefania Raviolo, Giorgia Montrucchio, Alice Trentalange, Antonio Curtoni, Rossana Cavallo, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa
COVID-19, a tale of two peaks: patients’ characteristics, treatments, and clinical outcomes
Ariel Banai, Philippe Taieb, Nadav Furie, Aviram Hochstadt, Ilan Merdler, Orly Sapir, Yoav Granot, Lior Lupu, Eihab Ghantous, Ariel Borohovitz, Amir Gal-Oz, Merav Ingbir, Yaron Arbel, Shmuel Banai, Yan Topilsky, Yael Lichter, Yishay Szekely
Another old man with fever and confusion
Elisa Gesu, Pietro Bellone, Katia Khouri Chalouhi, Federico Longhitano, Andrea Risso, Andrea Di Rita, Luca Mellace
An integrated emergency department/hospital at home model in mild COVID-19 pneumonia: feasibility and outcomes after discharge from the emergency department: comment
Giovanni Nattino, Stefano Paglia
Emergency department admission revolution during the COVID-19 pandemic: burden or opportunity?
Alessandro Jachetti, Christian Bracco, Luigi Fenoglio
Management of sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department
Francesco Gavelli, Luigi Mario Castello, Gian Carlo Avanzi
A safe protocol to identify low-risk patients with COVID-19 pneumonia for outpatient management
Francisco Javier Teigell Muñoz, Elena García-Guijarro, Paula García-Domingo, Guadalupe Pérez-Nieto, Fernando Roque Rojas, María García-Peña, María Antonia Nieto Gallo, José Antonio Melero Bermejo, María Teresa de Guzman García-Monge, Juan José Granizo
An integrated emergency department/hospital at home model in mild COVID-19 pneumonia: feasibility and outcomes after discharge from the emergency department
Pere Llorens, Oscar Moreno-Pérez, Begoña Espinosa, Tamara García, Ana Belén Payá, Sonia Sola, Francisca Molina, Francisco Román, Inmaculada Jiménez, Sergio Guzman, Adriana Gil-Rodrigo, Bárbara Peña-Pardo, Esperanza Merino, Joan Gil, David San-Inocencio, Mariano Andrés, José Sánchez-Payá
After the first wave and beyond lockdown: long-lasting changes in emergency department visit number, characteristics, diagnoses, and hospital admissions
Fulvio Morello, Paolo Bima, Enrico Ferreri, Michela Chiarlo, Paolo Balzaretti, Gloria Tirabassi, Paolo Petitti, Franco Aprà, Domenico Vallino, Giorgio Carbone, Emanuele Emilio Pivetta, Enrico Lupia
Colchicine efficacy and safety for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
Alessandro Andreis, Massimo Imazio, Matteo Casula, Stefano Avondo, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari
“The flying thymus sign”
Damien Nguyen, Thomas Nguyen, José Castro Rodriguez
Whirl sign: a common misinterpreted radiological entity
Caterina Barberi, Chiara Colaizzi, Jacopo Guerrini, Hayato Kurihara
External jugular vein aneurysm: a rare cause of fluctuating neck swelling
Ashwin Chandran, Dhananjay Kumar, Rajeev Kumar, Nisha Sharma, Rakesh Kumar
Intestinal “stones bag” in Crohn’s disease
Alessia Urru, Nicola Romano, Fabio Borda, Enrico Francesco Melani, Gian Andrea Rollandi
Emergency department visits and readmissions after COVID-19 hospitalization: a cross-sectional analysis
Mary Gwin, Massoud Saleki, Hannah Lampert, Nicholas Meo, Maralyssa Bann
Statin-induced, immune-mediated injury with simultaneous targeting of skeletal muscle, skin and liver
Stefano Gitto, Claudia Campani, Sergio Generini, Francesco Liotta, Luca Messerini, Fabio Marra
Pooled analysis of mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin values in COVID-19 patients with critical illness
Giuseppe Lippi, Brandon Michael Henry
Erysipelas over the centuries: notes from the history of popes
Maria Emilia Paladino, Davide Cavasin, Michael Belingheri, Michele Augusto Riva
COVID-19 and related symptoms in patients under disulfiram for alcohol use disorder
Stefano Tamburin, Elisa Mantovani, Ernesto De Bernardis, Donato Zipeto, Fabio Lugoboni, Costanza Agostoni, Roberta Almasio, Paola Avveduti, Ornella Baisini, Martina Ballerio, Alessandro Barbero, Marina Bellinato, Carlo Benevento, Loretta Bin, Veronica Bonizzi, Gianmario Borroni, Angelo Bove, Rita Broccardo, Sandra Bruschi, Roberta Brusini, Manuela Cairati, Liborio Martino Cammarata, Andrea Canale, Donatella Cantiero, Tania Capovilla, Maria Cristina Chiroli, Mauro Cibin, Raffaella Collesei, Daniela Colombo, Tiziana Cuomo, Annalisa D’Angelo, Susanna Dedola, Marco Degli Esposti, Giovanni De Micco, Vincenzo De Stefano, Filomena Di Cosmo, Tiziana Di Dio, Carmela Maria Di Fazio, Claudia Dona, Lorenza Fabiano, Mariacristina Fanton, Fulvio Fantozzi, Egle Maria Fergonzi, Elena Finotti, Francesca Fiore, Donatella Fiorentini, Nadia Fontana, Laura Franceschini, Luciana Furini, Paola Galletta, Francesco Gallo, Marianna Gardiolo, Roberta Gaspari, Nicola Gentile, Daniela Gervino, Novella Ghezzo, Cinzia Ghidoni, Maura Giubertoni, Paola Giussani, Filippo Gori, Francesca Groppa, Cinzia Grosina, Maria Raffaella Guzzetti, Paolo Jarre, Giovanna Maria Latino, Gianluca Lerro, Salvatore Lobello, Gloria Lobrano, Ilaria Valerida Lotti, Michael Malagò, Marcello Mazzo, Stefano Mellini, Cristina Meneguzzi, Rocco Mercuri, Sabrina Migliozzi, Elena Molinaroli, Antonio Mosti, Daniela Mussi, Alessandra Novelli, Anna Padovani, Carmela Palmigiano, Elio Panelli, Alessandro Pani, Serena Passaretti, Valentina Pavani, Maria Pecoraro, Ivo Peroglia, Marina Pitasi, Roberto Poli, Edoardo Polidori, Anna Laura Porcu, Davide Possetto, Antonio Prete, Serenella Quaresima, Paola Rapuzzi, Rosa Recchia, Fabio Reina, Marco Riglietta, Elisabetta Rizzo, Fabio Rugani, Maria Adele Salvadori, Stefania Samaia, Samantha Sanchini, Paolo Sandrone, Francesca Sassella, Antonia Scala, Michele Scarzella, Bruno Sciutteri, Ivana Sclaverano, Massimo Sorce, Elvira Speranza, Maria Caterina Staccioli, Laura Suardi, Fiorella Talassi, Anna Talluto, Biagio Tinghino, Sonia Tiso, Tania Tosi, Antonella Tusa, Maria Sabrina Ungari, Riccardo Valenti, Lucia Vecchi, Alessandro Vegliach, Rita Vercellone, Flavio Verdelli, Serena Vicario, Francesca Vignola, Cinzia Zambon, Angela Zannini, Ilenia Zanoni, Valeria Zavan, Cristina Zerbini
Procalcitonin for the differential diagnosis of COVID-19 in the emergency department. Prospective monocentric study
Peiman Nazerian, Manfredi Gagliano, Lorenzo Roberto Suardi, Alessandra Fanelli, Gian Maria Rossolini, Stefano Grifoni, Antonio Annovi, Alessio Prota, Enrico Lumini, Elisabetta Catini, Simona Gualtieri, Barbara Casanova, Eleonora De Villa, Gabriele Cerini, Sara Mucaj, Marco Albanesi, Edoardo Cavigli, Chiara Moroni, Vittorio Miele, Fillippo Lagi, Lucia Turco, Matteo Tomaiuolo, Diana Paolini, Barbara Tognetti